Quick Tips for How to Age and Store Wine Correctly

In this video, you will learn our quick tips on how to age and store wine correctly and properly.

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Table of Contents:
Into 0:00
What Wine to Age 0:40
Temperature 1:43
Humidity 2:20
Bottle Position 2:57
Where to Age ad Store Wine 3:30

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Quick Tips for Storing/Aging Wine

In today’s video, you will learn which wines to age and which not to age, why temperature, humidity, and bottle position matter, and the best places to age a bottle of wine.

So Let’s get into it!

Most wines are made for you to drink while they’re young - that means within the first year of purchasing a bottle of wine
Only Specific wine can be aged
This typically includes wines with higher tannin levels, higher acidity, dry wines

Some of our recommendations on red wine varietals to age include:
Nebbiolo
Barolo
Cabernet Sauvignon - like a bordeaux
Pinot Noir - like a Burgundy

White wine varietals to age include:
Chardonnay
White Rioja
Remember to consider the characteristics of a wine and the winemaker prior to deciding to age wine. And again, MOST wines are not made to be aged.

When you do decide to age a wine the most important things to remember are:

Temperature:
Keep the temperature cool, but not too cool
Want temperatures between 55-60 degrees F
Keep the temperature the same the whole time. The more consistent you keep the temperature, the better wine will age
For example, have you ever heard of beer becoming “skunky” when you allow a cold beer to become warm? Similarly, with wine, you want to make sure it stays at a consistent temperature while aging, so it doesn’t affect the wine’s flavor

Humidity:
Keep the room humid where you are storing a wine - somewhere between 50-80% humidity. This helps to prevent a cork, in the wine bottle, from drying out. It also helps with preserving the label on the bottle of wine
Aside from being too cold, you don't want to store wine in a normal refrigerator. This is because it is not humid enough, so the cork can dry out. This can cause air to leak into a bottle, and make the wine go bad. If you want to learn more about how to detect wine faults, check out our previous video up above!

Storing Wine on its side in a dark place:
You want to store a wine bottle on its side. This keeps the wine in contact with the cork which, again, prevents the cork from drying out. This is only important if the wine has a natural cork. So if the wine bottle has a twist-off cap or a synthetic cork, you don’t need to lay the bottle on its side. You also want to store wine in a dark place. Direct sunlight will damage wine. This is often why wine bottles have dark-colored glass to prevent sun or light from damaging the wine.

Best places to store wine:
Wine cellar, basement, dark cool closet, wine fridge
These storage areas are typically cool, humid, and dark and make for ideal places to store wine!

So, again, remember only some wine can be aged, Temperature, humidity, and bottle position are important to age wine properly, and choose the place to store your wine carefully!


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